The City of Alcoa announced today that the East Tennessee Development District (ETDD) Board of Directors installed Mayor Donald R. Mull to serve as Vice-Chairman of the ETDD Board of Directors for fiscal year 2007-08 at the 40th annual awards banquet held at the Rothchild Conference Center in Knoxville on June 15, 2007.

Mayor Mull has been a member of the ETDD Board since he took office as mayor of Alcoa in 1983. He also served as secretary in 2006-07 and treasurer in 2005-06.

The ETDD provides regional planning services, assists with economic and industrial development, utility planning, historic preservation, tourism, and small business development. The region covers Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier and Union counties.